Engineering

Henkel operates globally with a well-balanced and diversified portfolio. The company holds leading positions with its three business units in both industrial and consumer businesses thanks to strong brands, innovations and technologies. Henkel Adhesive Technologies is the global leader in the adhesives market – across all industry segments worldwide. In its Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care businesses, Henkel holds leading positions in many markets and categories around the world.

Kemira is a global leader in sustainable chemical solutions for water intensive industries. They provide best suited products and expertise to improve their customers’ product quality, process and resource efficiency. Kemira‘s focus is on pulp and paper, water treatment and oil and gas.

SBT Instruments aims to revolutionize the market for bacteria detection by introducing patent-pending technology in a product that performs real-time detection of bacteria in aqueous solutions. Their goal is to supply the food industry, medical industry and the health care sector with a quality control system for a wide range of processes.

Valmet is the leading global developer and supplier of technologies, automation and services for the pulp, paper and energy industries. For 50 years Valmet has provided solutions for SOx emission reduction. Today, Valmet is also known for its reliable marine automation and innovative flue gas cleaning solutions. Their target is to make the vessels greener, more efficient and more profitable.

While Etteplan’s AMO team is working hard to show our customers how to benefit most from additive manufacturing, we are always searching for the best manufacturing method for each design. This customer case is a good example of how “hybrid manufacturing”, a combination of additive and traditional subtractive manufacturing techniques, can be utilized to efficiently produce a very demanding product.

John Deere Forestry Oy asked Etteplan to redesign a hydraulic block for a tree harvester boom in order to best utilize the geometric freedoms offered by additive manufacturing, i.e. 3D printing. The goals from the redesign were to decrease pressure drop, make assembly easier, reduce weight, and minimize production costs.

Etteplan offers a comprehensive set of services related to the creation of additive manufactured goods. We combine additive manufacturing expertise with our company-wide excellence in the fields of mechanical engineering and simulation techniques.

Wärtsilä was willing to redesign their valve springs press tools by having a lighter structure made by additive manufacturing. The initial “standard design” was machined and welded, but there were fears that it would not withstand the spring forces of over 30 kN generated during use. Wärtsilä involved Etteplan to co-design and rethink the manually operated pressing tool for mounting cylinder head valves.